Long-range shot-gun cartridge.



L. P. GERHARDT.

LONG RANGE SHOT GUN CARTRIDGE. APPLICATION man NQV.22.1916.

1,243,155. Patented 001;. 16, 1917.

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LONG-RANGE SHOT-GUN GAR'IRID To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS PQGERHARDT, citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Lorah, Cass county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Long-Range Shot-Gun Cartridge, of which the following isa specification.

u.:The;-'obj ect of this invention 1s to provide a an improved construction for long-range cartridges adapted to maintain a quantity of shot in compact relations for a considerable time after leaving the muzzle of the n. A further object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for a shot contalner.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved yielding means for retaining a shot container in the cartridge.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinatlon of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims andillustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the preferred form of my improved cartridge. Fig. 2 is a front end view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a cartridge illustrating a slightly modified form of shot container, in which a metallic liner is employed. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a further modified form of shot container.

In the construction of the device as shown particularly in Figs. 1 and. 2 the numeral 10 designates the usual casing or shell formed of thin metal, provided with a firing cap 11,

A i and supplied with a quantity of explosive 12 such as powder in its base. A wad 13 of common form is mounted in the shell or M \rcasing 10 over the charge 12. A shot container 14 is provided and is mounted in the casing 10 and rests on the wad 13, and said 1 container is formed of pasteboard or fiberboard, is of tubular form, open at its base is shaped head 16 at its forward end lying 0.

within the forward end portion of the shell 10. The shell or casing 10 is formed with diametrically opposed longitudinal slots 17, 18 near and opening to its forward end,

y from which slots spring tongues 19, 20 are bentinwardly to engage the head 16 of the a shot container. It is the function of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

Application filed November 22, 1916. Serial No. 133,259.

springs 19, 20 to retain theshot container 14 within the shellor casing 10, but to yield and permit the passage of such container when the charge 12' is exploded.

In practical use the container is ejected from the shell when the gun is fired and passesthrough and out of the gun barrel, and proceeds a considerable distance from the muzzle of the gun in its normal position; that is, with the head 16 in advance, thus retaining the charge 15 of shot in compact relations and preventing scattering of such shot. When the container 14 has proceeded a certain distance from the gun, usually from forty to fifty yards, the resistance of the air currents causes it to turn over, after which the shot 15 continue on their way and the container 14 drops to the ground. This enables the shot to be delivered within a small radius at a considerable distance from the gun, and the result is consequently more efi'ective at long range than Where they are permitted to commence scatterin g as soon as they issue from the gun.

I am aware that other. shot containers have been made having square or hemispherical noses or heads, but I have demonstrated by actual experiment that the coneshaped head is much more effective in carrying the shot a longer distance, and that the container so constructed will not turn over as soon as a square or round headed container.

As the shell or casing 10 is formed of relatively thin material, the container 14 fits quite snugly to the gun barrel after leaving the shell.

In the construction according to Fig. 3 a liner 21 is employed within the shot container 14 and said liner preferably is formed of thin sheet metal. It is fitted snugly to and within the container and receives the actual contact of the shot 15, and also serves to strengthen and reinforce the container.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4 I have illustrated the shot container 14 having a head 16 which is substantially cone-shaped, but the tip is blunted or rounded slightly. With this construction the container will turn more quickly than where it has the pointed head. In other respects this construction is identical with that previously described in connection with Figs. 1 and 2, and the liner shown in Fig. 3 may or may not be employed as is found to be most desirable.

I claim as n y'inventione 9 Y -1. A long-range cartr dge,- co'mpr1s1ng a shellfopen at one end, shot container I mounted therein, said shot container being open at itsbase and being formed with a cone-shaped head lying within the open end open at its base and'formed with a coneshaped head, ametallic, liner within "said container, and spring tongues on the forwarden'd of said shell bent inwardly at acnte anglesand yieldingly engaging said container.

' thereinxcland having a cone-shaped head within the open 'end'of said shell, and

fl-diametrically opposed spring ton'gnes cut from the forward portion of said shell and bent inwardly'at aen'te angles and engaging said cone-shaped head. s

Signed by me iat' Lorah, Iowa, in the presence of J twowitn'ssesf x LOUIS PGERHARDT. Witnesses: I

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'C. A. ANDERSON.

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